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The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas Giveaway Winner

Submitted by Barbara on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:34

Thanks for the interesting comments on The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas! It was the third in the Man Booker Prize Longlist series.

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10 Facts about Books You Won't Read in a Book about Books Video

Submitted by Barbara on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:27

Love this video about Books and Books Clubs.

 

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Author On the Bookcase: Tanya Egan Gibson, author of How to Buy a Love a Reading

Submitted by Barbara on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:07

Author On the Bookcase
Tanya Egan Gibson

I met a great writer at the Virginia Festival of the Book last March-- Tanya Egan Gibson, author of How To Buy a Love of Reading. We stay up all night, with Kim Addonizio (awesome poet) solving the world's problems. What happens in Charlottesville stays in Charlottesville!

Tanya Egan GibsonSo, I'm so thrilled to welcome Tanya to On the Bookcase.

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Man Booker Prize Longlist Part Four: Betrayal by Helen Dunmore

Submitted by Barbara on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:03

Teaser Tuesday and Man Booker Prize Longlist, Part Four

Today's selection

Betrayal by Helen Dunmore

Leningrad in 1952, a city recovering from war. Andrei, a hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery teacher, are forging a life together. They try to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is still in power, and when Andrei has to treat the seriously-ill child of a senior secret police officer, he and Anna are caught  in a web of betrayal.

A gripping and deeply moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, The Betrayal brilliantly shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of violence and terror.

Praise

"Historians have written capably about the horror of Stalin's 1952 "Doctors' Plot", as they have written about the Siege of Leningrad which preceded it.

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September Reading Group Choices

Submitted by Barbara on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 09:36

September reading group choices are up! Pick your next book for your group. 

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2010 Man Booker Shortlist

Submitted by Barbara on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:06

Man Booker PrizeI'd better step-up my game.

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Man Booker Prize Part Five: In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut

Submitted by Barbara on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 20:04

Man Booker Prize Part Five
In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut

In a Strange RoomA novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is a hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love and for a place to call home.

A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way – including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge – he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his life.

Praise

"I doubt if any book in 2010 will contain more memorable evocations of place than In a Strange Room...

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Man Booker Prize Part Six: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

Submitted by Barbara on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 21:24

Man Booker Prize Part Six
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson


The Finkler Question'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…’ Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results.

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National Reading Group Month 2010 Great Group Reads

Submitted by Barbara on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 00:27

2010 GREAT GROUP READS

October is National Reading Group Month (NRGM) and the NRGM 2010 Great Group Reads have been selected.

Great Group ReadsThirteen titles have been picked this year.

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Teaser Tuesday September 21: Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

Submitted by Barbara on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 09:50

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read, Open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, and share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I love anything by Dennis Lehane so I was thrilled to receive an ARC of his latest.

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